Comparative studies receive relatively little attention in U.S. education. Comparative work done by people who are either international scholars or have spent extensive (and intensive) periods of time in international contexts rarely shows up on course syllabi or reading lists in most U.S. education courses. However, this volume is comprised of scholars at various phases of their careers -- early, mid, and late -- who have deep investments in issues of international and global education. U.S. students do not know very much about the countries of Africa because these countries cannot be understood outside of the history and foreign policies that implicate the United States. The same thing might be said of Latin America, the Caribbean, and increasingly Asia. The only way that broader and more complex perspectives of the post-colonial world can emerge are in the presence of post-colonial voices. Globalisation, for better or worse, is a part of our post-modern, postcolonial condition. Unless we do systematic study of the way global forces impact material realities and our symbol systems we cannot make sense of our world and our place in it. The responsibility for the study of the global, transnational, transcultural, and/or comparative does not reside merely on those we see as "other". However, their perspectives cannot be marginalised in the discourse. This collection contains a superb mixture of voices and perspectives from around the world. But, it also contains a wonderful homage to two scholars, B Robert Tabachnick and Robert Koehl whose work represent the leading edge of comparative education.

Table of Contents:
Introduction; English Rustic in Black Skin: Postcolonial Education, Cultural Hybridity, and Racial Identity in the New Century; Power and Educational Development: Small States and the Labour of Sisyphus; Education for Self-reliance: The Case of Tai Solarin's Mayflower of Nigeria; The Global Politics of Educational Language Policy in Tanzania; Colonial Heritage and the Dimensions of Kenyan Education: The Case of Kikamba Schools; The "Bottom Power" Concept: The Philosophy of the Female Bargaining Strategy in Nigeria and its Implications for Schooling at All Levels; African Women and Politics: A Case of Chief (Mrs) Margaret of Nigeria; Womans Education in Nigeria: A Shift in Cultural Paradigm; Journey as Metaphor: The Personal Story of an African Woman in Education; Action Research and Teacher Education in the U.S. and Namibia; Capacity Building and Brain Drain in Nigeria; Dealing with the Ghost of the Colonial Past in Science Education in Nigeria; School Reforms in Post-Independent Ghana: Trends and Issues in Special Education; Hey Dude! Its Not Computer: Technologies, Curriculum, and Governing the Self; Fordham and Ogbu Meet Miss Ruby: Acting White Versus A; Taking American Students for A Cultural Plunge into Japan and Avoiding the Tourist Experience; Teaching and raising the Tabachnicks; Teaching Educational Development and Curriculum and Planning in the 21st Century: Discursive Ruptures in the Conversations About Planning for Modern Citizenship Through Public Education; Children Books About Africa and the Africana Book Award; What is it that you want to do? The Inquiry Pedagogy; Index.